The Door Without a Key Review

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

The 1962 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Door Without a Key,” takes place entirely in one night in a police station.

First an older man, played by Claude Rains, is brought in saying he found himself on the street in a state of total amnesia. Then a young boy, Mickey Hollins, played by Billy Mumy, comes in claiming he left the back seat of his father’s parked car, and his father accidentally drove off without him. The more the two talk, the more Sgt. Shaw, played by John Larch, disbelieves both their stories.

The acting is quite fine and the suspense is well sustained. Being all in one room except for one brief outdoor scene, the episode must have cost very little to make but is of high quality.